Company History

• Early 90s - A group of engineers started their researches in the domain of nanosecond electronic devices and non-stationary electromagnetism.
• 1997 year - The first scientific work has been published
• 2002 year - First prototype of GPR  'VIY1'.

The one of the first significant radar test: a detailed GPR investigation inside the  Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev (the oldest church complex in Kiev, Ukraine).

• 2004 year - New design of GPR - 'VIY2'.

This series of GPR took part in archaeological subsurface explorations (Kiev-Pechersk Lavra territory, caves in Ternopil and Lviv region, etc.), speleology (Ukrainian caves Ozerna, Mlynki, Ulashkivska etc.), relief and ice structure exploration in Antarctica etc. 

• 2010 year - Creating of VO-36 odometer that allowed to make a measuring process easier.
• 2011 year - New design of GPR - 'VIY3'. The GPR receiver got a new 18-bit ADC, that made a dynamic range twice wider.

The third series was equipped with a new powerful and fast microprocessor that allows to increase a measuring speed more than 5 times. All third generation GPRs were made in a new design body from glass-fibre plastic. 

• The accessory range was increased - hand carts, towing carts for vehicles and odometer.
• 2014 year - New series of portable GPR – 'VIY3-500' and 'VIY3-700', very convenient for a shallow depth accurate measuring and for measuring inside small space buildings.
• Spring 2014 year - Wi-Fi connection GPR-laptop was implemented
• GPR antenna now is a whole GPR device assembled in one body.
• GPR allows now to work with any Windows supporting computer or laptop.

We constantly improve the GPR software to make it easier for user and more flexible and powerful to solve more difficult issues.

VIY Trademark Etymology

The origin of trademark VIY^® derives both from the classic Ukrainian literature and Eastern-Slavic mythology:

"VIY is a tremendous creature of folk imagination. This name was given by Ukrainians to the Head of dwarves. He had very long eyelids going down to earth."
N. Gogol

The gaze of this creature had a magic all-permeating force that unveiled all hidden and unknown objects.

We believe VIY^® GPRs have the same capability!